YEMENI CIVIL WAR,IN YEMEN ,BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES ARE DANCING TO THE SAUDI ARABIA TUNE.HOW THE US AND BRITAIN BECAME MORE INVOLVED IN THE WAR IN YEMEN.

The conflict has its roots in the failure of the political transition
that was supposed to bring stability to Yemen following an uprising
that forced its longtime authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to
hand over power to Mr Hadi, his deputy, in November 2011.Mr Hadi
struggled to deal with a variety of problems, including attacks by
al-Qaeda, a separatist movement in the south, the continuing loyalty of
many military officers to Mr Saleh, as well as corruption, unemployment
and food insecurity.

The escalating war in Yemen has subverted the international order. Since
the end of World War Two, there has been a pattern of client regimes
engaging in proxy wars on behalf of major powers.Crucially, Saudi Arabia and its allies did not attack Yemen on behalf of
the West. It is Britain and the US who are facilitating Saudi Arabia’s
war.It’s a country where civilians are driven from their homes because of
US- and British-backed violence, then have their pleas for refuge
denied, partly on the basis that they may be terrorists.

Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest countries, has been devastated by a war between forces loyal to the internationally-recognised government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and those allied to the Houthi rebel movement.he escalating war in Yemen has subverted the international order. Since the end of World War Two, there has been a pattern of client regimes engaging in proxy wars on behalf of major powers.The Saudi-led coalition of Arab air forces began carrying out airstrikes on rebel forces in Yemen in 2016. In the space of those 12 months, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights estimates, at least 3,200 civilians had been killed and 5,700 wounded, with 60% of the casualties inflicted by air strikes. The UN said on 12 November 2015 that at least 5,878 people had been killed and 27,867 others had been wounded since the escalation in March 2015 of the conflict.

In March 2015 in response to a request from Yemeni president Hadi for Arab League / Gulf Cooperation Council military intervention, invoking Article 51 of the UN Charter, Saudi officials announced the formation of a coalition to counter the Houthi rebellion, with membership including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, and Senegal. The Saudi-led coalition conducted air and ground operations throughout the remainder of the year.More than 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen’s civil war.

Houthi rebels fired numerous rockets and three SCUD missiles across the border from Yemen into Saudi Arabia, killing at least 47 Saudi civilian and military personnel from April to December, according to media reports. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International reported that the Saudi-led coalition launched rocket attacks into populated civilian areas near the Saudi-Yemen border in northern Yemeni towns of Sa’ada and the province of Hajja. Human Rights Watch reported that 13 people total were killed, including three children, in seven rocket attacks from April to mid-July in Hajja Province.There are urgent, burning questions to be answered about the true role
of British advisers in Saudi Arabia as the massacre of civilians
continues.

One in every 120 Yemenis is now suspected of being sick with cholera, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.There have been around 2,000 deaths in the country since April 27.
About 5,000 people fall sick every day and more than 450,000 more are
suspected of having the disease, according to the World Health
Organization.The majority of those exposed to the bacteria known as Vibrio
cholerae don’t fall sick and only 1 in 10 infected people develop signs
of cholera. Cases are mostly treatable with a simple rehydration
solution or IV rehydration.The role the war has played in Yemen’s cholera outbreak can’t be
overemphasized, said Adeeb al-Rassabi, Sanaa general coordinator for the
Electronic Disease and Warning System, the country’s epidemic
surveillance system. If not for the conflict, “we would have been able
to contain cholera in no more than one month, no more, no doubt.